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Leah Nylen / Bloomberg:
US v. Google: a federal judge rules that Google illegally monopolized the search market, including through deals to be the default option on phones and browsers  —  Google's payments to make its search engine the default on smartphone web browsers violates US antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Monday …
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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
US v. Google: a judge says Google has a monopoly in “general search text advertising” and used exclusive agreements to raise prices without any competition  —  A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.
Jason Del Rey / Fortune:
Apple and Mozilla will take a big revenue hit if the Google search ruling is upheld; in 2021 to 2022, $510M of Mozilla's $593M revenue came from its Google deal  —  “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.”  —  With those words from United States District judge Amit Mehta …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google losing its US antitrust case may have major ripple effects for Apple, Amazon, and Meta, just as Microsoft's loss in 2000 influenced the Google decision  —  Nearly a quarter-century after Microsoft lost a similar case, a judge's decision that Google abused a monopoly in internet search is likely to have major ripple effects.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple's AI shift could move some searches to Siri and AI chatbots instead of web browsers and Google, softening the blow from the US v. Google antitrust ruling
John Schulman / @johnschulman2:
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman departs to join Anthropic and focus on AI alignment, and says “I'm not leaving due to lack of support for alignment research”  —  I shared the following note with my OpenAI colleagues today: I've made the difficult decision to leave OpenAI. This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I can return to hands-on technical work. I've decided
The Information:
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says he's taking a sabbatical through the end of 2024; a source says OpenAI product leader Peter Deng, who joined in 2023, left  —  Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and one of 11 cofounders of the artificial intelligence firm, is taking an extended leave of absence.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI plans to change the format of its DevDay conference this fall to a series of on-the-road developer sessions, and GPT-5 will not be announced at DevDay
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google unveils the $100 Google TV Streamer, with better performance than Chromecast with Google TV, Thread and Matter support, and more, shipping September 24  —  Google isn't waiting for its upcoming hardware event to announce the Chromecast's successor.  Alongside the new, sleeker Nest Thermostat …
Wes Davis / The Verge:
A look at some of Apple's pre-prompt instructions for Apple Intelligence, including “do not hallucinate” for a text generation feature  —  Apple's latest developer betas launched last week with a handful of the generative AI features that were announced at WWDC and are headed to your iPhones …
Cherlynn Low / Engadget:
In a fifth iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15 developer beta, Safari adds Distraction Control, which lets users block distracting elements on the page like pop-ups
New York Times:
In an email to staff, Linda Yaccarino says X will close its San Francisco office and move workers to San Jose offices and a new Palo Alto office shared with xAI  —  Elon Musk, X's owner, has clashed with California's leaders and has said the social media platform would move its headquarters to Texas.
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
Samsung starts mass production of the world's thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM, claiming it is 9% thinner than most LPDDR5X and improves devices' heat resistance by 21.2%  —  The new package frees additional space.  —  Samsung has started mass production of the world's thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM packages featuring 12 GB and 16 GB capacities.
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.7B, Gross Bookings up 19% YoY to $40B, vs. $39.7B est., Mobility Gross Bookings up 23% YoY to $20.6B, and 7.4M drivers  —  - Results driven by better-than-expected growth in ridehailing  — Autonomous rides grew six-fold from year ago through partners
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Google releases patches for 46 Android security vulnerabilities, including a kernel zero-day the company says “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”  —  Android security updates this month patch 46 vulnerabilities, including a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) exploited in targeted attacks.
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Sources: Nvidia scraped sources like Netflix and YouTube to train an unreleased foundational model; concerned staff were told they had full clearance to do so  —  Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats …
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Red Ventures sells CNET, an early pioneer of online tech coverage, to Ziff Davis, which owns Mashable, PC Mag, and other brands, a source says for $100M+  —  Ziff Davis is acquiring CNET for more than $100 million.  Its chief executive thinks more acquisitions are on the horizon.

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